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Message*	Come Out For Peace <a href="http://showmepj.org/actions/?id=4287">http://showmepj.org/actions/?id=4287</a> COME OUT FOR PEACE: We invite your participation in a gathering to mark a sad milestone: 1,000 U.S. military personnel killed in Afghanistan, and to call for an end to this senseless war.<br /> <br /> The escalation of the Afghan War has led to a pronounced increase in casualties, military and civilian. As of today, 999 GIs have died in Afghanistan, and with GI deaths running approximately one per day so far this year, it is highly likely that the 1,000th death will be reported very soon.<br /> <br /> VIGIL TIMING & DETAILS: If that number reaches 1,000 by 12 noon Monday, we ask you to solemnly join other concerned citizens for a peace vigil or remembrance from 5:30-6:00 p.m., that evening at the war memorial in front of the Boone County courthouse on Walnut St. at 8th St. in downtown Columbia.<br /> <br /> Should that number be reached after noon tomorrow (22 Feb.), we will vigil at the same location at 5:30 p.m. on whichever day the 1,000th death is reported by noon. To know the count, please visit http://www.icasualties.org. Signs and banners will be available (but bring your own or candles if you so wish).<br /> <br /> WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT: We will gather to mourn the deaths of all U.S. troops and the tens of thousands of Afghans-- all brothers and sisters of ours in the human family-- who have perished in this insane U.S. war initiated in 2001...and to renew our commitment to strive to help end the U.S. wars of empire in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan and elsewhere. <br /> <br /> Thanks to Jeff Stack of FOR and David Finke of FOR & Columbia Friends Meeting locally for initiating and organizing this on very short notice and for sharing the information we are passing on. We also thank the American Friends Service Committee which helped initiate this national call for action. A recent AFSC post notes:<br /> <br /> "Though we are in the ninth year of this war in Afghanistan, fully one third of these 1000 deaths have taken place in the last year. Sadly, the number of fatalities looks to continue to rise. The exact number of Afghan deaths is unknown, though surveys from the United Nations show that last year marked the highest number of civilian deaths and the highest number of children being killed.<br /> <br /> "The Obama administration plans to continue escalating the troop levels, bringing the number (in that country) to 100,000. The Department of Defense uses a calculus of $1 million per soldier, per year, to deploy to Afghanistan. In addition to the incalculable cost of lives lost, our country has so far wasted $100 billion in violence and destruction there.<br /> <br /> "This waste must stop. Please join us, and the peace supporters (nationwide) in calling for an end to the war in Afghanistan by attending a vigil to commemorate the lives lost. Tell the Obama administration (202-456-1414; 202-456-111) and Congress : Not One More Death, Not One More Dollar For War. (contact for MO senators, Sen. Claire McCaskill 202-224-6154; Sen. Kit Bond 202-224-5721; and Columbia are Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer 202-225-2956)...If you can't join a vigil, then consider writing a letter to the editor."<br /> <br /> Thanks for whatever you can do to participate and to spread the word on this,<br /> Your friends at Peaceworks<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Mid-Missouri Peaceworks<br /> 804-C E. Broadway<br /> Columbia, MO 65201<br /> 573-875-0539<br /> <br /> E-mail: mail@midmopeaceworks.org<br /> Web site:<strong>www.midmopeaceworks.org</strong><br /> Support our work. Donate securely at:<strong> http://www.midmopeaceworks.org/give.php</strong>
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Date(s): Mon, Mar 8th, 2010

Time: 12:00 pm

COME OUT FOR PEACE: We invite your participation in a gathering to mark a sad milestone: 1,000 U.S. military personnel killed in Afghanistan, and to call for an end to this senseless war.

The escalation of the Afghan War has led to a pronounced increase in casualties, military and civilian. As of today, 999 GIs have died in Afghanistan, and with GI deaths running approximately one per day so far this year, it is highly likely that the 1,000th death will be reported very soon.

VIGIL TIMING & DETAILS: If that number reaches 1,000 by 12 noon Monday, we ask you to solemnly join other concerned citizens for a peace vigil or remembrance from 5:30-6:00 p.m., that evening at the war memorial in front of the Boone County courthouse on Walnut St. at 8th St. in downtown Columbia.

Should that number be reached after noon tomorrow (22 Feb.), we will vigil at the same location at 5:30 p.m. on whichever day the 1,000th death is reported by noon. To know the count, please visit http://www.icasualties.org. Signs and banners will be available (but bring your own or candles if you so wish).

WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT: We will gather to mourn the deaths of all U.S. troops and the tens of thousands of Afghans-- all brothers and sisters of ours in the human family-- who have perished in this insane U.S. war initiated in 2001...and to renew our commitment to strive to help end the U.S. wars of empire in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan and elsewhere.

Thanks to Jeff Stack of FOR and David Finke of FOR & Columbia Friends Meeting locally for initiating and organizing this on very short notice and for sharing the information we are passing on. We also thank the American Friends Service Committee which helped initiate this national call for action. A recent AFSC post notes:

"Though we are in the ninth year of this war in Afghanistan, fully one third of these 1000 deaths have taken place in the last year. Sadly, the number of fatalities looks to continue to rise. The exact number of Afghan deaths is unknown, though surveys from the United Nations show that last year marked the highest number of civilian deaths and the highest number of children being killed.

"The Obama administration plans to continue escalating the troop levels, bringing the number (in that country) to 100,000. The Department of Defense uses a calculus of $1 million per soldier, per year, to deploy to Afghanistan. In addition to the incalculable cost of lives lost, our country has so far wasted $100 billion in violence and destruction there.

"This waste must stop. Please join us, and the peace supporters (nationwide) in calling for an end to the war in Afghanistan by attending a vigil to commemorate the lives lost. Tell the Obama administration (202-456-1414; 202-456-111) and Congress : Not One More Death, Not One More Dollar For War. (contact for MO senators, Sen. Claire McCaskill 202-224-6154; Sen. Kit Bond 202-224-5721; and Columbia are Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer 202-225-2956)...If you can't join a vigil, then consider writing a letter to the editor."

Thanks for whatever you can do to participate and to spread the word on this,
Your friends at Peaceworks

Mid-Missouri Peaceworks
804-C E. Broadway
Columbia, MO 65201
573-875-0539

E-mail: mail@midmopeaceworks.org
Web site:www.midmopeaceworks.org
Support our work. Donate securely at: http://www.midmopeaceworks.org/give.php